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NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available

NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available in the Download Center. https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD236988 Please install it *before* installing any other EEB/HotFix. If you install it af...

Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances Page

Please note the the following link: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100038989 This is the *only* page that will provide Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances. Every effort will be made to keep this ...

Resolved! Migrate existing setup to new appliance

Hello , we are considering the appliance solution and have the following two question ; Currently we have a NetBackup 7.1 running on a server how can we migrate it to the appliance ?How can I have an HA , can we implement a HA like having a clust...

Resolved! Tape is FULL

Hi, I'm an IT Specialist and just new to Symantec Netbackup. I'm running 7.6.1.2. I have several tapes that were reported by Netbackup as Full. I want to remove these tapes from the library. What command should I need to run so that netbackup wil...

Resolved! Orphaned images on an Appliance

Hi All Problem MSDP Pool using more space than expected Problem 1 isolated : Orphaned Image Fragments , need solution Background Netbackup Appliance Currently on 2.7.1 Environment used to have major problems with AIR replication , cause wa...

Resolved! Adding NTP server to Date/time page

Hi Our appliance 5230, @2.6.0.3 in media server role is running fine. I checked its callhome service is not running, as NTP server entry is not added to it like our other appliance. My query is if I add NTP server to its configuration from web...

NetBackup Appliance CallHome fails after upgrade to 2.6.1.2

Having just completed a NetBackup Upgrade on 2 x 5230 Appliance (Previous version is 2.6.0.3 and target version is 2.6.1.2) we've noticed the call home feature no longer works - it was working ok prior to the upgrade. We receive an error when trying...

Resolved! Netabckup Appliance 5200 not responding during upgrade

Hi all, I had a problem during upgrade, its been 18 Hours and it still stop on the same state of upgrade Veritas Optimzed Operating System 1 after do starting up vxconfigbackupd. Below was the pic of the proses upgrade. Thanks All for your help

Resolved! Clean up of /inst/client/.packages directory??

Doing a bit of housecleaning prior to upgrades... and I notice my master appliance (2.6.0.4) is probably a bit too full in the /inst filesystem to attempt an upgrade. I look into it and see quite a few old client directories: <master>:/inst/client/...

Resolved! GRT Duplication jobs fail with 191...client hostname could not be found

NetBackup 5230 Appliance Version: 2.6.0.2 NetBackup Version: 7.6.0.2 Netbackup 5203 Master/Media server backing up then replicating via SLP to a DR 5230. The backup and replication work just fine but the duplication to tape fails. The images are G...

Resolved! can't login NetBackup Appliance

Hello, We have Netbackup Appliance 5230 with username admin How can we reset/recovery admin user ?! Thank You

Resolved! Unable to restore a oracle control file in RHEL

Hi Guys, Its me again :( I´m trying to restore a oracle database according to this technote HOWTO63971 but when I run this command: run { allocate channel c1 type 'sbt_tape'; send 'NB_ORA_SERV=nbu_master, NB_ORA_CLIENT=ora_clnt'; restore ...

Resolved! Unable to remove an Ip address on my Appliance 5230

Hello, I've got an appliance 5230, which i initialized there are few days. I set an adress on eth1 interface and because we faced some issues, i unconfigured eth1 in order to set it again after. The unconfiguration with the "Unconfigure eth1" comma...

Resolved! User Access Management on Appliances

Hi all, Am I reading it right that User Access Management, because it's part of the NBAC, isn't available on the NetBackup Appliances? Does this mean either I can give users admin access or nothing at all? I am aware of the command line ability to ...

Resolved! Correct 5220 with shelves startup procedure

I have a 5220 appliance with 2 shelves. What is the correct way to shutdown and start up all components? Thanks

Issues connecting to an appliance

Recently, I recieved an external drive from one of my remote sites with 5TB of data on it. I plugged it into one of my media servers and backed it up in NBU using msdp to another media/appliance server we will call it server 20. Now, I want to run a ...

Paths to disks: Is it a limited resource???

Hi all, I have a question about using multipathing disks on a 5230 Our setup is that we have several 5230 appliances, which are zoned to our 3PAR storage arrays in order to access our VMware disks for making (accelerated) VM backups Currently, our...

Resolved! NEED SOLUTION FOR STORAGE ISSUE

Dear all, Can you please give the soution I want to take backup of edms on HP tape-Library(6480) around 6 TB from symantec netbackup applaince 7.6. How much time it takes to complete the backup.

Replication between appliances

Hi Tech Experts, we are having two netbackup 5230 appliances in production and DR site. The Monthly backup data will be replicated between appliances and due to slow wan link, there are lot of pending backup images backlogs. in order to clear the ba...

Resolved! Routing on Appliance 5230

Hi We are trying to add a route to our existing appliance 5230, running at 2.6.0.3. This is configured in media server role. Currently this server is getting used for backup of only one client which contains Netezza DB. Now we want to use this ap...

2.7.1 as vmware guest

Does anyone have any experience in running the 2.7.1 appliance build as a vmware guest. I would like to build a test environment using the 2.7.1 ISO image to test out some of the new features in 2.7.1. Many Thanks Dave

Resolved! Symantec Appliance 5230 master role

I have an inquiry about pros and cons of having a separate physical server as master server against making the 5230 appliance have the 2 roles "master,media" what i can think of is to take headache of scheduling from the appliance plus having secon...

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